Solos & Duets
BLUES FOR PAUL
Duration: 10'
Instrumentation: Fl, Pno
A jazz flavored piece for flute and piano.
The sheet music is available at SheetMusic Plus.
...AND THE LIVIN' IS EASY - A Piano Suite Of Three Pieces
Duration: 10'15"
Instrumentation: Pn
Three movements:
The Fourths of July 1'40"
Lazy Summer Day 3'30"
Moon on Lake Kinderhook 4'40"
ANTICIPATION
Duration: 1'07
Instrumentation: Vc, Pno (for a student cellist)
CONFECTIONS - Three Pieces For Clarinet And Piano
Duration: 11’:11”
Instrumentation: Cl, Pno
Three Pieces:
Sprinkles 3’05”
Ala Mode 3’14”
Whipped Cream 4’52”
CONVERSATIONS - Suite Of Three Piano Works
Duration: 10'
Instrumentation: (Also available for piano solo.)
Three Movements:
Repeat That Please 1'30"
Sweet Talk 3'
The Argument 3'
DIVERTIMENTO - For Two Flutes
Duration: 5'40"
Instrumentation: 2 Fl
FLIGHT OF FANCY
Duration: 8'
Instrumentation: Fl, Pno
FLUTE AND PIANO SONATINA
Duration: 11'23"
Instrumentation: Fl, Pno
Three Movements:
Mvt. I: 5'17"
Mvt. II: 4'06"
Mvt. III: 2'
WISTFUL MEMORIES
Duration: 3'30"
Instrumentation: Fl, Pno
FOR AGLIA
Duration: 6'
Instrumentation: Pno
Two movements:
Sunset 3'
Floating Clouds 3'
HOLIDAY
Duration: 5'20"
Instrumentation: Fl, Pno
INTERVALS - 24 Works for Piano
Instrumentation: Piano
A friend of mine once told me that her favorite songs were those that began with a jump of an octave. Like, for instance, "Somewhere Over The Rainbow." It got me to thinking about how the first two notes of any piece of music really sets up what is to follow. That octave jump, that interval, is only one of twenty-four possible intervals. That is to say there are twenty-four different intervals that can begin a piece of music. I have written these twenty-four pieces with the idea of having the first two notes of each of them start with a different interval. Writing them has been like a series of adventures, each of which begins by taking the first two steps - and then discovering where they will lead. A recording by Hadassah Guttmann of all twenty-four pieces is available on Amazon and elsewhere.
Purchase the sheet music to the entire collection or individual pieces at Sheet Music Plus.
INVENTION FOR FLUTE AND PIANO
Duration:
Instrumentation: Fl, Pno
3 movements.
LAKE KINDERHOOK
Duration: 5'10"
Instrumentation: Pn
MEMORIES - For Violin And Piano
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation: Vln, Pno
SOLITIDE IN THE CITY
Duration: 3'11"
Instrumentation: Cb, Pno
Is also available for Cello and Piano; or for Flute and Cello; or as Cello solo
SONATINA
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation: Pn (also for Hpschd)
This is a twelve-tone work. Has also been played on Harpsichord.
SONATINA – For Violin And Piano
Duration: 9'
Instrumentation: Vln, Pno
A three-movement work. Mainly tonal, with rich harmonies.
SPRING IS HERE
Duration: 8'
Instrumentation: String orchestra
Chamber Music
TRIO FOR FLUTE, VIOLA AND HARP
Duration: 13'38"
Instrumentation: Fl, Vla, Hp
Premiered at Queens College in April, 1996 by Sue Ann Kahn, Christine Ims, and Susan Jolles.
Three Movements:
Mvt. I: 5'01"
Mvt. II: 4'11"
Mvt. III: 4'26")
Published by E.B. Marks and available at SheetMusicPlus
CENTRAL PARK
Duration: 10'
Instrumentation: Fl, Vc, Pno (Alternate version: Cl, Vla, Pno)
Three Movements:
Man Walking Dog 1'46"
Young Lovers 4'31"
Joggers 3'13"
THE DINKEY BIRD
Duration: 9’
Instrumentation: Fl, Vln, Vc, Pno
THE FLUTE OF MORNING
Duration: 9'
Instrumentation: Sop, Fl, Bn, Vln, Pno
Poem by Blanche Abram
DIVETIMENTO FOR CLARINETS
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation: 2 Cl, Pno
A one movement piece for 2 clarinets and piano.
THE WEDDING TRIO - A Piano Trio In Four Movements
Duration:
Instrumentation: Pno, Vln, Vc
Mvt. I:
Mvt. II: 6’32"
Mvt. III: 5'40”
Mvt. IV:
FLUTE QUARTET
Duration: 2'41"
Instrumentation: 4 Flutes:
MOODS
Duration: 14'45"
Instrumentation: Vln, Vla, Vc
Mvt. I: Contentment 3'20"
Mvt. II: Longing 5'
Mvt. III Joy 6'25"
PIANO TRIO NO. 2
Duration: 17'30"
Instrumentation: Pno, Vln, Vc
Mvt I: Allegretto Grazioso
Mvt II: Andante Tranquillo
Mvt III: Allegro
QUIET WINTER MORNING - for String Orchestra
Duration: 6'
Instrumentation: String Orchestra
QUIET WINTER MORNING - For Wind Quartet
Duration:
Instrumentation: Bassoon, Oboe, Horn
Score and parts available for purchase and download at Sheet Music Plus.
SEASONINGS - Two pieces for String Orchestra
Duration: 6' & 6' Visit this podcast of a performance of both works Spring Is Here and Quiet Winter Morning at Queens College in 2005.
Instrumentation: String Orchestra
SPRING TRIO
Duration: 18'35"
Instrumentation: Vln, Vla, Vc
STAR CLUSTERS
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation:
String Quartets
STRING QUARTET No. 3
Duration: 16'36"
Instrumentation: 2 Vln, Vla, Vc
Premiered in Chicago in 1996.
4 movements:
Mvt. II: 4'26”
Mvt. III: 2'48”
Mvt. IV: 4'59").
STRING QUARTET No. 4
Duration: 12'39"
Instrumentation: 2Vln, Vla, Vc
Three Movements.
STRING QUARTET No. 5
Duration: 13'10"
Instrumentation: 2Vln, Vla, Vc
Two Movements.
STRING QUARTET No. 6
Duration: 15'
Instrumentation: 2Vln, Vla, Vc
Three Movements:
I. Adagio
II. Andante
III. Allegro
PROTEUS STRING QUARTET
Duration: 12'30"
Instrumentation: 2 Vln, Vla, Vc
3 movements:
Quicksilver 4’39”
Shifting Sands 3’40”
Kaleidescope 4’11”
YIN AND YANG QUARTET
Duration: 13'
Instrumentation: Vln I, Vln II, Vla, Vc
Mvt 1: Variations on a Mantra 7'23"
Mvt 2: After The Storm 5'47"
Pop Songs
An Unplayed Piano
Blue Notes
But I Love It!
David Means Love !
Daybreak In Alabama
Every Monday
Everyone Is Welcome In This Garden
Five Times!
Free Again
Galahad In Jeans
Gotta Get Some Sleep Tonight“
Here I Go Again (“Soap”)
I Wonder
Jazz Lullaby (Rockabye Baby)
Lonelyville
Lovers Were Strangers
Miss Unlucky
My Sometimes Friend
No Sound Without Ears
Nothing’s The Same Anymore
Po’ Little Lamb (Lullaby)
Quiet
Sane Society
So Nice To Know
Song Without Words
Sweet Summer
The Clock Keeps Ticking (“Three Came Home”)
The Man I Need (“Soap”)
The Mere Mention Of Your Name
The World Can’t Be All Bad
This Lovely Minute (“Three Came Home”)
Tired Of A Table For One
Twentieth Century Blues
When You Catch Cold
Where’s That Nice Girl (I Used To Be)
Who Am I?
Art Songs
DAYBREAK IN ALABAMA
Duration: 4'
Instrumentation: Sop, Pno, (Alternate Version SATB Chorus)
Poem By Langston Hughes.
BREAKFAST ALONE
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation: Sop, Pno
Poem By Ann Sillsbee.
TWO SONGS BY CHINESE POETS
Duration: 8'19"
Instrumentation: Ten, Fl, Pno (Alternate Version: Bar, Vln, Pno)
The Last Day Of The Year 3'46" (Poem By Su Tung Po)
Sitting Outdoors 4'33" (Poem By Lu Yu)
UNENDING LOVE
Duration:
Instrumentation: Voice, Pno
Poem By Rabindranath Tagore
WHERE HAVE YOU GONE?
Duration: 4'20"
Instrumentation: Sop, Pno
Poem By Blanche Abram
TOMORROW CAME
Duration: 3'51"
Instrumentation: Sop, Fl, Vc, Pno
Poem By Doreen Spungin
FOUR LULLABYES For Soprano And Piano
Duration: 13'53"
Instrumentation: Sop, Pno
Sleep Baby Sleep 3' (Sung By Monet's Wife To Their Baby)
Lullaby 4'26" (Sung By A Mammy To The White Child She Takes Care Of)
Strange Nursery 3' (Sung By A Mother To Her Child While They Are Held As Prisoners By The Japanese In World War II)
Jazz Lullaby 3'26" (Sung By A Modern Mother To Her Newborn)
FULL MANY YOUNG LIPS
Duration: 3'16"
Instrumentation: Sop, Pno
Poem By Blanche Abram
I SHALL NEVEER FORGET (MY DOG BRUNO)
Duration: 2'46"
Instrumentation: Sop, Or Ten And Pno
Poem By Agilia Ho
LATE NIGHT THOUGHTS
Duration: 4'53"
Instrumentation: Sop, Fl, Vc, Pno
Poem By Doreen Spungin
LOVE IS A TWO PART INVENTION
Music & Lyrics by Julie Mandel
Duration: 3'
Instrumentation: Sop, Ten, Pno
Song From "Two" A Musical Revue
MARY LINCOLN SONG
Duration: 4'
Instrumentation: Sop, Pno
Based On Mary Lincoln's Quotes.
MAY I HAVE YOUR COAT
Duration: 3'25"
Instrumentation: Sop, Fl, Vc, Pno
Poem By Doreen Spungin
A PORTRAIT OF CHILDHOOD
Duration: 4'14"
Instrumentation: Sop, Or Ten, Pno
Poem By Aglia Ho
PORTRAITS
Duration:
Instrumentation: Fl, Guit, Pno, Sop
Five Songs For Sop. Piano, Flute (One For Guitar)
Poems By Ilsa Gilbert
A PRIVATE PLACE
Duration: 2'14"
Instrumentation: Sop, Pno
Poem By Lois Wyse
RECIPES FOR LOVE
Duration: 9'
Instrumentation: Sop, Fl, Pno
Poems By Sharon Harris
Three Songs:
Instant Love 1'47"
Spendthrift 2'57"
Falling In Love 1'37"
THAT THING CALLED LOVE
Duration: 2'35"
Instrumentation: Voice, Fl, Pno
Based On A Quote By Karen Horney.
THE THREE ODDEST WORDS
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation: Voice, SATB
For SATB A Cappella. Text By Wislawa Szymborska Winner Of The 1996 Nobel Prize In Literature
THREE SONGS
Duration: 17'
Instrumentation: Fl, Vc, Pno
Three Songs For Soprano Voice With Flute, Cello And Piano.
Poems By Doreen Spungin.
SEE
Duration:
Instrumentation: Sop, Pno
Poem By Lois Wys
Vocal & Choral
EVENING PRAYER
Duration: 5'55"
Instrumentation: Sop, or Ten with 2 Vln, Vla, Vc (Also available as Sop or Ten with Pno)
HISTORY SAYS
Duration: 5'
Instrumentation: SATB a cappella
This SATB a cappella work has as it's text a quote from Seamus Heaney's play "The Cure At Troy"
MABEL AND HER COTTAGE
Duration: 11'
Instrumentation: 2Vln, Vla, Vc, Narr
String Quartet and Narrator
THE PIOUS CAT
Duration: 10'
Instrumentation: Sop, Fl, Pno, Narr (alternate version Sop, Cl, Pno, Narr)
Weaving together a lyrical vocal score, a traditional Yiddish folk song, and narration into a beautiful setting for soprano, narrator, clarinet and piano. This thought-provoking work by Yiddish author I.L. Peretz is a parable of how devotion and piety are often used to excuse and rationalize even the most heinous acts.
Musical Theater
ONCE IN A LIFETIME [1950]
Music & Lyrics Julie Mandel
Duration: 1hr, 30min
Produced at Carnegie Recital Hall, and in summer stock. Based on Kaufman and Hart’s play of the same name. A satire about the days when the silent screen became “The Talkies!” and killed vaudeville, prompting vaudevillians to seek their fortune in Hollywood.
Out Of Work
You And Me And The Lamppost
Once In A Lifetime
Doin’ Alright
Indian Nuts
You Learn About Life In The Movies
We Never Had To Learn How To Talk
Still In Love
We’ll Make A Star Of Susan Walker
Take Heart
The Time, The Place, The Girl
LOVE FROM SANDY [1955]
Music and Lyrics Julie Mandel, Book David Dachs
Based on the 1953 book by Elwynne Berger based on a novel about an 18-year old American girl, Sandy Sanderson, who spends a year at an English University and learning about English climate, money, manners, and 22 Rhodes Scholars.
How Would I Know
Mr. Inertia And Mr. Rut
It Might Have Been
Sandy
Twentieth Century Blues
Education
It’s Gonna Be Hard On Me
Voila Les Indians
Two Little People
Foolish, Fascinated Fella
MISS SEEDLESS RAISIN [1958]
Music and Lyrics Julie Mandel, Book David Dachs
An original send-up of the world of advertising and its exploitation of the female form to sell anything and everything.
Fairy Tales
Girls Girls Girls
Emotionally Involved
Strictly Business
Rough
Who’s In Love
Riding With The Top Down
Sleepy But Happy
Aren’t We Lucky
Beautiful Larchmont
If They Put What You’ve Got Into Bottles
Miss Seedless Raisin
EXPENSE ACCOUNT [1960]
Music and Lyrics Julie Mandel, Book David Dachs
Based on a book by Joe Morgan, and set in the go-go corporate world of the time, this show was nearly produced for Broadway. Sadly “How to Succeed…” came along just at that time and the producers pulled out.
Yes, Mr. Appleton
It’s A Hard Life!
One Love’s Enough For Me
When You’re Not Looking
Get A Loan From Louie
Teamwork
It Can Wait
The Riddle Song
Strictly Business
Expense Account
Make It A Long Kiss (Lyrics?)
On The Wrong Track
Where Were You?
Illigitimus And Noncarborundum
Loyal
Triangle Fugue
Whatever It Is It Can Wait
FIRST YOU TAKE AN OATMEAL BOX [1967]
Music and Lyrics Julie Mandel, Book David Dachs
A musical about the birth of radio – and advertising. Before Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak started Apple computer in a garage, young crystal set radio kit enthusiasts drove the invention of network broadcasting and home electronics. Set in 1913, as crystal set radios start to catch on with hobbyists and commercial entrepreneurs begin to realize there’s money to be made. Is it progress, or the corruption of a dream? Six principals (3 and 3), 5 others (men), and chorus.
I Got Denver Last Night
I Wake Up Smiling
Sunny California
Exaggerate!
Any Girl
The Peek-A-Boo Waist
How Do I Look?
I Can Talk To You
May I Call You Stella
First You Take An Oatmeal Box
Sweet Sal
Ring In The New Year
I Wouldn’t Have You Any Other Way
Publicity
Let’s Make Up For Lost Time
How Do You Do Folks?
A Fine Friend I Turned Out To Be
Soon They’ll Be Selling The Moonlight
THREE CAME HOME [1971]
Music and Lyrics Julie Mandel, Book by Hal Pockress
Based on a book of the same name by Agnes Newton Keith recounting her experiences in a Japanese WWII prisoner of war camp in Borneo with her young son.
We’re Not The Ladies That We Used To Be
Orientals
Inferior Women
Strange Nursery
You’re a Big Pain
Author In Captivity
Privacy
Native Dance
The Face Of My Enemy
Put In Lunch
The Lady
This Lovely Minute
The World Will Wake One Morning
The Clock Keeps Ticking (cut)
SOAP [1974 unfinished]
Music and Lyrics Julie Mandel, Book by Hal Pockress
A gentle son who breaks away from his dominating father, and becomes a kind of Scarlet Pimpernel figure (The Red Fox) who fights for clean ecology, truth in advertising, ….all the things his father is guilty of.
The Red Fox
Yes, Father
The Fox Trot
Vitamin C
Soap
On A Typical Day
The Man I Need
I’m Wonderful
Golf
Meditate
Here I Go Again
Little Retreat
Together
TWO : A MUSICAL REVUE [1978]
Instrumentation: Soprano, Tenor, Piano (expandable)
A 60 minute musical revue for two people in which all the songs relate to the concept of “two” and explores all the many and varied combinations. (Can also be done using several “couples”) Has been performed in many regional theaters.
First produced by Equity Library Theater at Lincoln Center Library featuring Ann Hodapp and Hal Waters, Clinton Atkinson, director; Bick Goss, choreographer; Donald Oliver, Musical Director. Recorded with original cast on “Take Home Tunes Records” label [LP#THT788].
Two's A Nice Number
Two Pieces Of Bread
Love Is A Two-Part Invention
Dear Mr. Green
Baby Makes Two
Two Note Rag
Two Points Of View
Now We Are Three
To Tango
Show Biz
Two Things
We Need Each Other
Two Cities
I'm Two
Twice On Matinee Days
When We're Together/One/2 Is What It's All About
Two's A Nice Number (Reprise)
LE GRAND CAFE [1980]
Book, Music and lyrics by Julie Mandel
Duration: 1hr, 30min
Instrumentation: Cast of 6; 2 sop, 2 ten. 2 bar. plus chorus, Pno. (expandable)
About the Impressionist painters Monet, Renoir, Degas, their passion for their work, their struggles to survive, the toll on the women and children in their lives, and their ultimately unexpected success. Workshop productions by Musical Theater Workshop and others.
Le Grand Café
He Paints
You Are All Women
Women Who Paint
The Forest Of Fontainbleau
The Forest Of Fontainbleau (Reprise)
The Salon
Everyday Eternities/Pleasure/Light And Nature
Fuel
You Are All Women (Reprise)
Don't You Just Love Art?
The Business Of Art
The Salon (Reprise)
Five O' Clock Absinthe Hour
Being Married
The Real World
Lullabye
My Collection
Those Crazy Impressionist Painters
Only A Pair Of Eyes
Everyday Eternities/Pleasure/Light And Nature (Reprise)
Le Grand Cafe (Reprise)
A GLORIOUS DAY [1992]
Music and lyrics by Julie Mandel and book by Lila Bernstein
Duration: 1hr, 30min
Instrumentation: Cast of 9: 4 sop, 2 ten, 3 bar., Pno. (expandable)
A musical based on George Bernard Shaw’s “Getting Married.” Its the wedding day (we hope!) of Edith, the last of the Bishop’s four daughters, and a fiery woman’s libber. Its been described as “A real ensemble piece with each of the characters fully developed and singing!”. Early version produced in 1993 by Survivor Theater in New York City, and later by the York Theatre in NY and in 2016 by the Blue Grass Opera Company in Lexington, KY.
Edith’s Getting Married
Gentlemen Of England
We’re Going To Write A Marriage Contact
Listen To The Music
Husbands
What Was I To Do?
Did I?
A Glorious Day
A Real Kiss
An Independent Woman
Dammit Woman, I Love You
Alone
SUBWAY SUITE [2000]
Music and lyrics by Julie Mandel
Duration: 1hr, 30min
Instrumentation: Cast: 16 songs with varied voices, string quartet (2 Vln, Vla, Vc), can be done with Pno accompaniment only.
Originating as a song cycle for string quartet and vocalists, and later expanded to a full-length musical theater work. This suite of songs was is set in the NY Subway from the morning rush hour to late at night, during which time we meet many different travelers. Premiered in at Queens College with the Meridian String Quartet.
Rush Hour
M Is For
Reading
Tomorrow Morning
The F Train Line
Announcement
One Dollah
Neptune Avenue
Rich And Famous
Blue Sky
A Wonderful Time!
Isn’t It Hot In Here?
Door People
Wall Street
Chamber Music
Chamber Music Duet
Ladies And Gentlemen
Bum Rap
Waiting For The F Train
Blue Notes
Blue Sky
Someplace To Go
On The Subway
ALONE [unfinished]
Music and lyrics by Julie Mandel
The Life of a Woman Song Writer in the 1950-1960’s
Chatter
It’s Commercial
Homes
David Means Love
Two Different People
Happy Birthday
Patchwork Quilt
All Roads
For Children
DANNY DUNN AND THE HOMEWORK MACHINE [1970]
Duration: 1hr
Instrumentation: Pno, Voice (Cast of Sop., 2 Ten. plus chorus)
Based on the book by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams.
What happens when Danny and his friends use a computer to do homework.
Golden Records
DANNY DUNN, TIME TRAVELER
Duration: 1hr
Instrumentation: Pno, Voice (Cast is Sop. 2 Ten., Bar., plus 3 non singing roles)
Based on the book by Raymond Abrashkin and Jay Williams.
What happens when Danny and his friends use a time machine that takes them back to Benjamin Franklin’s time, and they meet him.
Golden Records
THE STORY OF OLD MACK, THE GOLDEN FIRETRUCK
Music by Julie Mandel, Story and Lyrics by Stan Werner
Originally released on Golden Records LR 237
PARI AND THE PRINCE [1967]
Book, Music and lyrics by Julie Mandel
Duration: 1hr, 30min
Instrumentation: Cast of 7; Sop, 6 male Voices, plus as many as possible for non-singing roles.
A musical for children based on a story from "The Daring Young Man on a Flying Trapeze" by William Saroyan in which a Prince falls in love with, and learns a great deal from, a young peasant girl named Pari. Performed in summer stock and in schools around the country. Originally published in a beautifully-designed package for schools including the score and copies of scripts for each of the students in the cast.
Publisher: McGraw-Hill
Opera
I WISH, I WISH, I WISH
Duration: 20'
Instrumentation: SATB, Pno (Also available with chamber orchestra)
A one-act opera with a cast of four: Sop., Alt., Ten., Bass. A kind of Japanese Fairytale set in modern times. Libretto: Eugene Mandel.
THE STORY ABOUT THE ANTEATER
Duration: 30min
Instrumentation: Voice, Pno (Cast: 3 sop., 1 Cont., 1 ten., 1 non-singing role) (Also arranged for Voice, Fl, Vln, Vc, Cb)
One-act Opera based on a short story by Stephen Vincent Benet. The story of marriage, and how one woman learns to accept her husband’s faults by realizing her own.